Virago Sleeves

Virago Sleeves
VIRAGO SLEEVES
Very full sleeves tied in at intervals to form puffs. Such sleeves were worn in the Elizabethan period and are a feature of the extravagant dress of Cavalier times.

Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.

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